Enhanced Reality

In the game world reality is already blending with the sim world (i.e. Warcraft). Believe it or not the latest technology often finds its proving ground in toys. Soon simulation will be used as a way of augmenting our everyday lives. Something that really got my attention while browsing at amazon.com was the book titled Simulations and the Future of Learning: An Innovative (and Perhaps Revolutionary) Approach to e-Learning by Clark Aldrich. It is very reminiscent of writings by Buckminster Fuller and Roger Schank. Essentially, we have the technology to automate education using computer simulation. If we begin working on these things now we could continue to build, improve, and refine these lessons. Perhaps this is the public education of the future – open source educational simulation programs.

Initially I was shopping for books on simulation for financial markets, but when I came across this book it opened up a whole new dimension of thinking for me. Basically, our whole lives are going to become simulations. There won’t be many decisions that we make in the future that we will not have first run through a simulator.